"crew. Chris Christofferson (Hans Junkermann), the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge in New York, receives a letter from his estranged twenty-year-old daughter Anna ""Christie"" Christofferson (Greta Garbo). She tells him that she'll be leaving Minnesota to stay with him. Chris had left Anna 15 years ago to be raised by relatives who live on a farm in the countryside of St. Paul. Chris has never visited his daughter in St. Paul and consequently has not seen her for the past 15 years. Anna Christie arrives, an emotionally wounded woman with a dishonorable, hidden past. In order to survive, she"
"talkies; her last film was ""The Four Just Men"" in 1939. She died in Hampstead, England, at the age of 100. Terriss was born Mary Ellaline Lewin in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. Her father, William Lewin, became a well-known actor in London under the name William Terriss. He loved the adventurous, outdoor life, and had previously tried his hand at various professions, including farmer, merchant seaman and silver miner. Shortly after Ellaline's birth, he gave up farming and moved his family back to England where, because of his swashbuckling style, was known as ""Breezy Bill"". Her brother Tom became an"
"Anna Christie Anna Christie is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this work. ""Anna Christie"" is the story of a former prostitute who falls in love, but runs into difficulty in turning her life around. The first act takes place in a bar owned by Johnny the Priest and tended by Larry. Coal-barge captain Old Chris receives a letter from his daughter, a young woman he has not seen since he lived in Sweden with his"
"family's former home, Monte Cristo Cottage in Connecticut. Alexander Woollcott in ""The New York Times"" called it ""a singularly engrossing play"", and advised that ""all grown-up playgoers should jot down in their notebooks the name of ""Anna Christie"" as that of a play they really ought to see."" The London West End premiere was staged at the Strand Theatre (now the Novello) in 1923. This was the first time an O'Neill play was seen in the West End. The play starred Pauline Lord, who had been the original Anna Christie on Broadway. The play had a great reception. ""Time"" magazine"
"films. In her early talkies, this ""throaty"" voice is still missing, and it remains unclear whether it has not yet emerged or whether she hid it. Her all-talking film debut was ""The Canary Murder Case"" (1929), in which she co-starred opposite William Powell and Louise Brooks. Arthur impressed only a few with the film and later claimed that at the time she was a ""very poor actress ... awfully anxious to improve, but ... inexperienced so far as genuine training was concerned."" In the early years of talking pictures, Paramount was known for contracting Broadway actors with experienced vocals and"
"To whom I shall always be grateful for his friendship and the encouragement he gave me many years ago. In 1908, Christie was recovering from influenza and bored, and she started to write a story at the suggestion of her mother, Clara Miller (see the dedication to ""The Mysterious Affair at Styles""). This suggestion sparked Christie's interest in writing and several pieces were composed, some of which are now lost or remain unpublished (one exception to this is ""The Call of Wings"" which later appeared in ""The Hound of Death"" in 1933). These early efforts were mostly short stories, but"
"Together, they also wrote dramatisations of three novels. In 1949 Toy and Charles approached Agatha Christie about adapting her 1930 novel ""Murder at the Vicarage"" into a play of the same name. Christie's official biography suggests that the play was written by Christie with changes then made by Charles and Toy, presumably enough for them to claim the credit. The play included a major change to the denouement. Whatever the truth of the authorship, Christie was enthusiastic about the play and attended its rehearsals and first night at The Playhouse in December 1949. The production ran for 126 performances. Toy"
"used the marketing slogan ""Garbo Talks!"", as it was her first talkie. Her first spoken line has become her most famous: ""Give me a whiskey with ginger ale on the side, and don't be stingy, baby."" George F. Marion, who had performed the role of Anna's father in the original Broadway production, reprised the role in both the 1923 and 1930 film adaptations. A German language adaptation, also starring Garbo, was filmed in 1930 released the same year, using the same production as the English language film that had concluded filming in 1929. This version was adapted by Frances Marion,"
"world-famous curls. With the arrival of talkies Pickford immediately took to the new medium, being one of the first major stars to do so. At her Pickfair Studios she installed a sound stage in 1928, and began preparing for her first talkie. She bought the rights to ""Coquette"", a play that Helen Hayes had made popular on the stage. ""Coquette"" is the story of a flirtatious southern girl who chooses to stand behind her father after he kills the man that she loves. Much like ""My Best Girl"" the role was adult, with Pickford portraying a flapper type for the"
"it as ""Anna the Adventuress"" (possibly confusing it with the 1904 book of the same name by E. Phillips Oppenheim). Irrespective of this mistake, the change from her preferred title was not of her choosing and the newspaper's choice was one that she considered to be ""as silly a title as I have ever heard"". She raised no objections, however, as the ""Evening News"" were paying her £500 (£ in current terms) for the serial rights which she and her family considered an enormous sum. At the suggestion of her first husband Archie, Christie used the money to purchase a"
"the 1950 collection ""Three Blind Mice and Other Stories"". Christie saw the potential of expanding the half-hour radio play into a full theatre play and in 1952, ""The Mousetrap"", the play that has the longest initial run of any play in the world, first came to the stage. As another play had run on the stage just prior to the Second World War also with the title ""Three Blind Mice"", Christie had to change the name. It was her son-in-law, Anthony Hicks, who suggested ""The Mousetrap"", which is taken from Act III, Scene II of Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"". Allan McClelland, in"
"1919, was titled ""Chris Christopherson"" and performed as ""Chris"" in out-of-town tryouts. O'Neill revised it radically, changing the barge captain's daughter Anna from a pure woman needing to be protected into a prostitute who finds reformation and love from life on the sea. The new version, play, now titled ""Anna Christie"", had its premiere on Broadway at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921, and ran for 177 performances before closing in April 1923. The production was staged by Arthur Hopkins and starred Pauline Lord. The desk on which O'Neill wrote the play is preserved and on display at his"
"H. C. McNeile with ""Bulldog Drummond"" (1920), and Leslie Charteris, whose many books chronicled the adventures of Simon Templar, alias ""The Saint"". The medievalist scholar M. R. James wrote highly regarded ghost stories (1904–1928) in contemporary settings. This was called the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Agatha Christie, a writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Christie's works, particularly those featuring the detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple, made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre."
"away from Christie Films with the promise of an opportunity to direct in addition to writing screenplays. While adaptations from other works was Darling's forte, between 1922 and 1928 at Universal he directed 27 silent films and wrote 40 screenplays. With the advent of sound film, he easily adapted to creating dialogue and wrote scripts for early ""talkies"" such as Fox's ""Trent's Last Case"" (1929) based on the E. C. Bentley novel and directed by Howard Hawks. Six years after directing his last silent film, Darling tried his hand at directing a sound film in the United Kingdom but was"
"talkie had increased local demand for Dutch films. The film did well - Dutch cinemagoers were delighted to see Truus in a Dutch film at last, and responded well to her obvious skill and experience as a screen comedian. It wasn't until 1939, that Truus was offered another film part. Hitler's Germany had few places for female actors not prepared to play adoring sweethearts or fruitful mothers, and even fewer for non-Aryan girls. She played the widow Anni, a good part in ""Ein ganzer Kerl"" (""A Regular Chap""). Truus didn't know it, but her film career was now over. In"
"her service in September 1918. After the war, Agatha and Archie Christie settled in a flat at 5 Northwick Terrace in St. John's Wood, northwest London. Christie had long been a fan of detective novels, having enjoyed Wilkie Collins's ""The Woman in White"" and ""The Moonstone"", as well as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's early Sherlock Holmes stories. She wrote her own detective novel, ""The Mysterious Affair at Styles"", featuring Hercule Poirot, a former Belgian police officer noted for his twirly large ""magnificent moustaches"" and egg-shaped head. Poirot had taken refuge in Britain after Germany invaded Belgium. Christie's inspiration for the"
"talkies in her film career, including ""Near the Rainbow's End"" (1930), co-starring Bob Steele. Following this film, she retired from the film industry to devote her time with her husband and two children. She married twice. Her first marriage to actor Art Acord ended in divorce in 1928. Her second marriage to Chester J. Hubbard ended in 1963 upon his death. She had two children. She died in 1981, aged 76, in New York City, from undisclosed causes. Her interment was in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery. Louise Lorraine Louise Lorraine (October 1, 1904 – February 2, 1981) was"
"the story ""legendary,"" Burstyn said, ""Everybody who saw that says that it was not only the best work Marilyn ever did, it was some of the best work ever seen at Studio, and certainly the best interpretation of Anna Christie anybody ever saw. She...achieved real greatness in that scene."" (According to some biographers, Monroe was molested by foster parents and worked as a prostitute.) Anna Christie Anna Christie is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this"
"contribution to mystery fiction in the 1920s was the development of the juvenile mystery by Edward Stratemeyer. Stratemeyer originally developed and wrote the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries written under the Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene pseudonyms respectively (and were later written by his daughter, Harriet Adams, and other authors). The 1920s also gave rise to one of the most popular mystery authors of all time, Agatha Christie, whose works include ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1934), ""Death on the Nile"" (1937), and the world's best-selling mystery ""And Then There Were None"" (1939). The massive popularity of pulp"
"(publishers of many of her short stories at that time) with an idea and notes for a story whose basic premise mirrored the Watts suggestion. Christie acknowledged the letter and after some thought and planning began to write the book but kept firmly to a plot line of her invention. In December 1969, Mountbatten wrote to Christie for a second time after having seen a performance of ""The Mousetrap"". He mentioned his letter of the 1920s, and Christie replied, acknowledging the part he played in the conception of the book. The novel received its first true publication as a fifty-four"
"any work of Christie's when the play, ""Alibi"", adapted by Michael Morton, opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London on 15 May 1928. It ran for 250 performances with Charles Laughton in the role of Poirot. Laughton also starred in the Broadway run of the play which was retitled ""The Fatal Alibi"" and opened at the Booth Theatre on 8 February 1932. The American production was not as successful as the British had been and closed after just 24 performances. ""Alibi"" is especially notable as it inspired Christie to write her first stage play, ""Black Coffee"". Christie, along"
"Black Coffee (play) Black Coffee is a play by the British crime-fiction author Agatha Christie (1890–1976) which was produced initially in 1930. The first piece that Christie wrote for the stage, it launched a successful second career for her as a playwright. Twenty-two years after Christie's death,"" Black Coffee"" was re-published in the United Kingdom and the United States in the form of a novel. The novelisation was undertaken by the Australian-born writer and classical music critic Charles Osborne, with the endorsement of the Christie estate. Agatha Christie began writing ""Black Coffee"" in 1929, feeling disappointed with the portrayal of"
"for her success. Christie's works include ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1934), ""Death on the Nile"" (1937), and ""And Then There Were None"" (1939). Edogawa Rampo is the first Japanese modern mystery writer and the founder of the Detective Story Club in Japan. Rampo was an admirer of western mystery writers. He gained his fame in early 1920s, when he began to bring to the genre many bizarre, erotic and even fantastic elements. This is partly because of the social tension before World War II. In 1957, Seicho Matsumoto received the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for his short story"
"detective story; she produced ""The Mysterious Affair at Styles"", which was turned down by two publishers before it was published in 1920. Following the limited success of the novel, she continued to write and steadily built up a fan base for what ""Contemporary Authors"" calls ""her unfailingly clever plots"". She went on to write over a hundred works, including further novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and two autobiographies. Aside from works under her own name, she wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. One of Christie's plays, ""The Mousetrap"", opened in West End theatre in 1952 and, as"
"Talkies"" is an Indian anthology film consisting of four short films, directed by Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar. The film was released on May 3, 2013, to mark the centenary year of Indian cinema. Solo is a 2017 Indian bilingual anthology romantic thriller directed by Bejoy Nambiar, telling the story of four different people all played by Dulquer Salmaan, each story revolving around four different elements: Earth, Fire, Wind and Water, each with the different facets of Lord Shiva In Assamese Cinema, Samiran Barua Ahi Ase was the first attempt to make a film based on"
"Agatha Christie was a great admirer. Christie herself described ""The Seven Dials Mystery"" as ""the light-hearted thriller type"". Lord Caterham was in the mould of eccentric Wodehousian peers, such as the Earl of Emsworth, who was also the ninth of his line; Bill Eversleigh has been described as ""an amiable if vacuous young man who has staggered in from a Wodehouse novel""; while Bundle herself could easily have been one of Wodehouse's feisty young women, the archetype of which, Bobbie Wickham, first appeared in ""Mr Mulliner Speaking"" in 1929. There was even an aunt, Marcia, Dowager Marchioness of Caterham, who,"
"Christie was well received by reviewers. An analysis in 1990 was positive about the plot, considered the novel one of the few by Christie that is well-anchored in time and place, a story that knows it describes the end of an era, and mentions that the plot is clever. Christie had not mastered cleverness in her first novel, as ""too many clues tend to cancel each other out""; this was judged a difficulty ""which Conan Doyle never satisfactorily overcame, but which Christie would."" Agatha Christie began working on ""The Mysterious Affair at Styles"" in 1916, writing most of it on"
"with the studio, soon to be known as Paramount Pictures, at $150 a week. With the rise of the talkies in the late 1920s, Arthur was among the many silent screen actors of Paramount Pictures initially unwilling to adapt to sound films. Upon realizing that the craze for sound films was not a phase, she met with sound coach Roy Pomeroy. It was her distinctive, throaty voice – in addition to some stage training on Broadway in the early 1930s – that eventually helped make her a star in the talkies. However, it initially prevented directors from casting her in"
"and collector, and attended vaudeville, memorizing many routines she saw. According to Zolotow, her transformation occurred when she realized that theater performers were just ordinary people. She learned to tag and hound performers, dispensing well-crafted flattering phrases. After doing this for a week to Georgie Price, he offered to give her five dollars if she would stay away from him. It was the event that would create her reputation, for now she realized that she could get money by being so annoying to people, that they would give her cash to stay away. The coming of sound films led Anna"
"voice, really, rather flat, rather toneless, yet growing more attractive as the picture advances and you become somewhat accustomed to it."" In 1962, film historian Richard Schickel reviewed the film negatively, describing it as ""dull"", with Marie Dressler providing ""the only vitality in an otherwise static and ludicrous"" film. Garbo's opening line was nominated for AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes: Anna Christie (1930 English-language film) Anna Christie is a 1930 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pre-Code drama film adaptation of the 1922 play of the same name by Eugene O'Neill. It was adapted by Frances Marion, produced and directed by Clarence Brown with Paul"
"talkie released in the country, but had poor technical quality. It was a critical failure, as the majority Sundanese audience felt that they were being insulted; contemporary director Joshua Wong suggested that this poor reception was partly owing to the main character eating a frog, something which is forbidden for Muslims. Following this failure, Krugers made the documentary ""Atma De Vischer"" (1931), which followed Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Hendrik on a trip through the Hague, before being signed to Tan's Film. With Tan's, Krugers made two films. First he was asked to handle cinematography on Bachtiar Effendi's 1932 talkie ""Njai"
"The Thirteen Problems The Thirteen Problems is a short story collection by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in June 1932 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1933 under the title The Tuesday Club Murders. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The thirteen stories feature the amateur detective Miss Marple, her nephew Raymond West, and her friend Sir Henry Clithering. They are the earliest stories Christie wrote about Miss Marple. As in some of her other short story collections"
"talkies. She was married twice, first to actor Warner Baxter from 1918 until his death in 1951, and then to Ferdinand H. Manger. She died in 1987. Winifred Bryson Winifred Bryson (born Winifred Brison, – ) was an American actress of the stage and of silent films. Born in 1892 in Los Angeles, Bryson began to perform publicly in 1914, initially in the musical comedy stage, and in the drama ""Regeneration"" with Bert Lytell. Although her first film was ""Peer Gynt"" (1915), her real transition to motion pictures was in the film ""A Heart to Let"" (1921). In all, Bryson"